Review of "Catskill Hotels" (Images of America) by Irwin Richman. A pictorial history of the great hotels of the Catskills in Ulster County, Sullivan County New York.

There’s a new open-source browser for Mac OS X based on Apple’s WebKit and the KHTML rendering engine…

Photos of black bear, deer, wild turkeys and the elusive wild catskills mountain cat.

Finally… NetFlix gets nailed with a class action lawsuit for throttling (slowing down how fast returned movies are recorded and sending out the next movie in your queue) subscribers. I dumped NetFlix after three months when I noticed my DVDs were being sent slower and slower. The settlement provides for one free month of rentals […]

Mini-praise for Maureen Dowd’s new book, "Are Men Necessary?".

My new PowerBook G4 arrived last week with a dead battery which will not charge and a defective scrolling trackpad.

The New York Times has launched TimesSelect, a paid service for accessing op/ed and other columnists writing.

ebay bans auctions with live animals.

I have some tips to pass along to anyone who now and then needs to purchase something by phone or online and ship to a different address than the credit card’s billing address.

While trying to replace a crashed PowerBook earlier this week, I spent at least three hours just trying to get the various components […]